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Tag Archives: terrorism
Religion and Voting and Other News
Four stories are covered in today’s BRIN post, including new data on religion and prospective voting behaviour. Religion and voting Two new large-scale polls (from YouGov and Populus) shed light on the relationship between religion and voting intentions since UKIP’s … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged al-Qaeda, Angus Reid Public Opinion, blood donation, Chatham House, Christian Research, churchgoers, English Defence League, fleshandblood, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Kore, Lord Ashcroft, Matthew Goodwin, Muslims, NHS Blood and Transplant, organ donation, politics, Populus, Religious Affiliation, terrorism, voting, YouGov
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North African Islamism and Other News
The threat posed by Islamism in North Africa is the lead story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news, with two of the other three items concerning the role of religion in state education. North African Islamism Recent events … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, Islamism, Islamist militants, Movement for Married Clergy, NASUWT, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, North Africa, priests, Prospect, religious education, Roman Catholic Church, state schools, terrorism, YouGov
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Theresa May’s Bad Hair Day
Just over half (54%) of the British public think that Home Secretary Theresa May has badly handled the issue of the deportation to his native Jordan of Abu Qatada al-Filistini, the radical Muslim cleric given asylum in Britain in 1994 … Continue reading
Abu Qatada
An overwhelming majority of Britons support the deportation to his native Jordan of Abu Qatada al-Filistini, the radical Muslim cleric implicated in Islamist terrorism, notwithstanding fears expressed by some that he may not receive a fair trial in his homeland. … Continue reading
9/11 – Ten Years On
Today is the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the terror attacks on the United States, usually credited to al-Qaeda, in which almost 3,000 people perished. The legacy of that day continues to be felt in numerous ways, including – in Britain … Continue reading
Group-Focused Enmity in Europe
Fresh light on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Britain is shed in a report published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 11 March 2011. Entitled Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report, it is written by Andreas Zick, Beate Kupper and … Continue reading
Posted in Measuring religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Alliance Publishing Trust, Andreas Hovermann, Andreas Zick, Anti-Semitism, Beate Kupper, Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, holocaust, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, prejudice, self-assessed religiosity, terrorism, TNS, women
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Today’s News – (1) ‘Islamic Extremism’, (2) Religion at Christmas
The regular weekly YouGov poll for The Sunday Times, published today, includes questions on a couple of topics which will interest BRIN readers. Interviewing was online on 16 and 17 December, among a representative sample of 1,966 adult Britons aged … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Christmas, Christmas Day meal, church attendance, churchgoing, commercial festival, extremist preachers, government, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamophobia, Luton, Luton Islamic Centre, Muslim community, police, prejudice, religious festivals, Rowan Williams, Stockholm, suicide bombing, Sunday Times, Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, terrorism, Terry Jones, universities, YouGov
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After the Papal Visit
One-quarter of British adults claim to have followed the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland and England, according to a newly-released poll from Angus Reid Public Opinion (ARPO), far fewer than are preoccupied with the sexual abuse scandal in the … Continue reading
London Bombings – Five Years On
The fifth anniversary of the London bombings has been marked by a YouGov poll for The Sun newspaper. It was conducted among an online sample of 1,424 adult Britons aged 18 and over on 4-5 July. Headline findings were published … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged 7/7, integration, Islamophobia, London bombings, Muslims, terrorism, The Sun, YouGov
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